“Father I am not going!” I say in the car as he drives me to a horse ranch and equestrian school, “yes you are you are already in the car and I am not stopping until we are there” he says and drives a little bit faster. I slump lower into my seat and cross my arms trying not to look like a three year old having a temper tantrum, “Fine” I grumbled then looked up as the car stopped. My father hoped out and turned the car off, he walked to the horse float attached to the back of our car then opened the door and led my beautiful horse out of it. I got out and walked over to my dad and my horse named storm.
My horses name is storm short for storm warning, storm warning was his racing name, he is a beautiful dark grey horse, he is almost black, and he has a beautiful black mane and tail, four white socks and a large white blaze on his face, he is wearing white boots on his two front foot. Me? I am a normal brunet with some natural black streaks and some sun bleached natural streaks, I am wearing my white jodhpurs with a light blue t-shirt and black chaps over my brown riding boots. My father has brunet hair like me and is just wearing jeans, joggers and a black top with white writing on it.
“What are u doing?” I ask my dad, “you are riding the rest of the way and I am going home” He said then handed me my saddle “this is the drive way just keep following it and you will see someone u know when u get there” he said helping me tack storm, then he kisses me on the cheek when I am finished and he hands me my back pack with my clothes in it. I put my helmet on then mount my horse, “bye dad” I say as he turns the car around, “bye honey!” he says and waves then drives away, I wave back then give storm a pat.
“It’s just you and me now mate” I say to storm then kick him up into a trot and trot down the drive way to the ranch. I canter for a couple of minutes then go back to a trot not wanting to make him lame or saw from the hard road.
I finally see the familiar face of my best friend Emily coming down the road on her horse flash, flash is a brown and white paint horse, Emily has dark brown straight hair and is wearing her cream coloured jodhpurs, a brown t-shirt and black chaps over her brown riding boots.
Lauren trots over to me and says “Hey Lynn, and her beautiful TB Storm” I laugh then say “ Hi Emily, and her beautiful paint Flash” she laughs then we try to hug each other but still on the horses. Flash bites out at Storm, and storm jumps away. Emily and I were still hugging, we fall to the ground laughing from the accident and get up and wipe ourselves down.
We hop back on our horses’ then canter the rest of the way to the riding school. when we reach the riding school we dismount our horses and Emily shows me were the stables are, I follow her to the stables and put storm into a spare stable next to flash, then I put all the tack into the tack room that Emily and I will be sharing and walk to our dorm. “That one is my bed!” I yell running into the dorm and jumping on the double sized bed, Emily walks over and is about to argue with me when I stopped and said “It’s my bed! Step away from the bed Emily!” she backs away slowly then stops and we both start laughing. “You will never change Lynn” Emily says, she mean me saying back away from the bed, because I all ways used to say that even when I was little, and I always won.
We walk down stairs into the main food area of the riding school, I get my food and sit down, we eat happily and talk for a while. Then I start to get a strange feeling, I think I know what it is but who could be making me feel this way? I turn and look around to see who is making me feel all nervous, shy and I think I have butter flies in my stomach. Then, all of the sudden, I know who is doing this to me, there is a guy, about the same age as me(18) sitting in the table behind me looking at me, as our gazes meet there is some weird feeling inside of me, then he looks away and I look back blushing slightly.
Emily is looking at me with an amused expression on her face, “what?!” I say and she just shakes her head and looks at her food and starts picking at it again. I turn back to my food again, but I can feel his eyes on me. May I say though, I like him, if he wasn’t behind me I would probably be staring at him too, but why is he staring at me? Is my hair messed up? Is there something my hair?
I sigh as he walks away, but I must leave as well, I have my first riding lesson in half an hour and I don’t want to be late, plus I have a treat for storm I have snuck in my bag from where we were having lunch. I walk down to the stable and into storms stall, I give him the apple then walk into the tack room to get my grooming kit, I walk out and there he is, the dirty blond hair guy with brown eyes that was looking at me while I was having lunch. He is standing there leaning on the stall door looking at storm. I brush storm and pick his hooves trying to ignore the guy.
“Umm… sorry I am Jake” he says and puts out his hand for me to shake it, I shake it “I am Lynn and this is storm” I say gesturing towards my horse. “Nice to meet u both, do u have a lesson on now?” he says, “yes I do” I say then put the saddle blanket and saddle on Storm “awesome, me too, see u down there” he says and walks away.
I finish tacking up storm, I grab my helmet, I put it on my head then led storm out of the stall and down to the arena where I saw Jake and his bay horse waiting, there was also another women, teacher I am guessing. I mount storm then walk over to them.
“Hi I am Kristine and I will be our teacher for the next 27 lessons” I nod then start warming storm up over some trot polls and small cross bars. “Ok Lynn, now that you two are warmed up u can go over this jumping course, you can make it up as you go but you have to jump all of the jumps” she says.
I canter Storm around the arena once the start heading to my first jump, I count in my head as I approach the jump 3, 2, 1 and jump! I clear the jump and head to the next jump; it’s a 60cm oxer, 3, 2, 1 and jump! I say in my head again, storm jumps over the second jump easily and I get out of the saddle into two point in time with him, we are one, horse and rider. We go around the course clearing every jump, and then we canter around the edge of the course again then stop near the applauding Jake and Kristine. I give Storm a big pat and a hug and sit and watch Jake do a course. He clears all of the jumps but his horse rears and bucks after the last jump. He comes up to us and we look at the horses crazy eyes.
“Very well done both of you” Kristine said “we are finished now, you can cool your horses down by yourself, I have another lesson” she waved then walked out. I trotted around slowly for a couple of minutes then walked around. Jake came up next to me and said “ Well done, you are so good” I smiled and said “Thanks, you aren’t too bad yourself” I smiled then rode storm at a walk out of the arena and down to the stable. I dismounted then took storm to his stall; I untacked him then put his rug on and set him out into the back paddock with flash.
“Hey” I hear someone say and I turn around to see its Jake, “Hi” I say looking back at storm. Jake walks up to me and stands next to me and says, “Lynn, could you come look at Beaus hoof he is limping a little bit” a bit surprised I nod and follow him to his bays stall. I open the stall door and walk up to the hoof Jake said was hurt. I lifted it up gently and looked at it, I pressed on the small crack in his hoof, the horse pulled his leg out of my hand and turned around to bite me but missed. “Sorry mate” I say stroking the horses’ neck.
“He has a rock in one of the cracks in his hoof I can get it out if you want me to, and his hoof is a little bit infected” I say looking back at Jake. I walk to my tack room and get out my medical box then walk back to Jakes horses stall. I get the rock out with tweezes and then put some purple spray on it to stop the infection getting any worse and hopefully better. “Put this on every day until it is better” I say handing Jake the bottle of purple spray. “Thanks” he says then we stroke his horse beau.
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